Willie Pep Quotes
Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.
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Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'
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I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.
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I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.
Biz Stone -
Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
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Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
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I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.
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To make it in boxing, you must captivate the fans in America, too.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
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I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.
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If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
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An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.
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Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.
